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#201 Re: Off-topic » Microcode » 2025-02-11 09:35:46

out of curiosity, here is a cut and paste quote of the fourth paragraph in that commentary:

This is ancient history for modern CPUs. Program code like x86 has long since stopped bearing any relationship to how data is physically crunched. Instead, that code is translated into micro-instructions that work with the microcode unit to optimally use all the pipelining, out-of-order execution, and inherent parallelism that speeds the plow.

mostly just wanting to confirm that others are also seeing that the last word in the last sentence should be flow not plow.

and confirming originating URL:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/microcode_attack_trump_musk/

also, it reads quite suspiciously and likely partially and/or entirely ai generated from snippets/soundbites originating elsewhere.

ymmv.

#202 Re: Off-topic » Do you guys have girlfriends or boyfriends? » 2025-02-09 10:36:10

reminded of:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/25/women-happier-without-children-or-a-spouse-happiness-expert

vaguely remember some other good commentaries but can't quite grep them atm, will add as they come to mind.

"I thought I was prepared for the death of someone I’d loved for more than half a century. I wasn’t."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/grief-death-spouse-lessons_n_6167269de4b0f26084efa264

#206 Re: News & Announcements » Merry Christmas » 2025-01-16 07:10:13

re @stopAI

Currently, Christmas is a commercialized capitalist holiday. I have no doubt that most people do not think about the meaning of this holiday....

indeed.

#213 Re: Off-topic » US Proposes Forcing Google to Sell Chrome . . . » 2025-01-13 13:51:22

more gxxgle

edited. removed slashdot link/reference/url due to an unconscionable change in the operation of their website. noscript ftw!

digital devices fingerprinting and tracking:

https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/biggest-privacy-erosion-in-10-years-on-googles-policy-change-towards-fingerprinting/

see also these:

https://lukaszolejnik.com/works.html

especially:

https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/icrc-report-on-cyberoperations/

and for those late to the party, a reference to a previous thread post:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=53058#p53058

of utmost importance to the times ahead regarding skynet/starlink/starshield:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-nsas-skynet-program-may-be-killing-thousands-of-innocent-people/

#215 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » XBell (beep) muted or disabled on Xorg (daedalus) » 2025-01-13 08:24:01

thanks for letting thread visitors know that this was another "upgrade versus fresh-install" conundrum.

while i humbly and respectfully acknowledge that not _everyone_ is able to do a fresh-install(whether from lacking hardware and/or skills and/or willingness), nevertheless a fresh install is by far best.

should this be a poem or haiku?

#216 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Mounting HDD in a USB cradle » 2025-01-13 08:07:34

mostly for the convenience of future thread visitors, since DD was mentioned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ddrescue

also please visit the other projects as well for additional food for thought:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ddrescue#Unrelated_recovery_tools

sometimes i remember to remember to marvel at each and every successful storage media activation(but oh how the expletives flow when they don't...sigh)

#217 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Mounting HDD in a USB cradle » 2025-01-12 06:29:03

shouldn't the thread title be less misleading? how about "Can I recover data from a raid member?" also, why no mention of important information like "raid array" and "managed by lvm" in the original post?

#218 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] cannot boot netinstall iso » 2025-01-12 06:01:49

typically customer initiated returns are a discrete opportunity to continually be on the lookout for counterfeits. the company feels fortunate that you don't feel the need to send it to one of the labs that does this:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/rejected-chips-hidden-microsd-cards-plague-the-usb-stick-market/

#220 Re: Off-topic » US Proposes Forcing Google to Sell Chrome . . . » 2025-01-08 03:39:48

@zapper, golinux modification was only to add some text to the original post(no deletions iirc)

======================

Note that this response is not only incredibly stupid but off-topic and way out-of-line. stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn . . . you can do better than this.

humor and/or "lack" of it, is a contentious/deep/wide subject/topic(and varies widely depending on a vast multitude of conditionals)

for one example consider the contributions of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_de_Sade

anywho/nevertheless/andallthatjazz...

even the OT of the OP is such a deep subject that it is almost defies logical rational reasoned thought.

#221 Re: Devuan Derivatives » GNUinOS - Libre » 2025-01-03 13:50:02

Security is necessary for privacy.

agreed. so where to go from here?

#222 Re: Off-topic » [SOLVED] "A future for the i386 architecture" and other good(???) news » 2025-01-03 13:44:38

@yeti and all, we are already in the "off-topic" area and discussing "architecture(s)" IS what we are already doing.

so i see no reason not to cross-post(yeti-again, pun intended!):

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=53863#p53863

https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/rv_selfhosting_all_the_way_down/

we/us users/developers/engineers/etc. are all in this together and as long as there are people willing AND hardware available...and the two have access to each other(physical people AND physical hardware, no qemu please) then we will continue to see some antique architecture software availability.

wonder what architecture and operating system Voyager is using?

https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/12/21/0612239/voyager-1-signals-from-interstellar-space-detected-by-amateur-astronomers-on-1950s-telescope

amazing.

#223 Re: Off-topic » [SOLVED] "A future for the i386 architecture" and other good(???) news » 2025-01-03 12:16:18

have been watching risc-v with interest for several years now.

these boards ship with ubuntu pre-installed(i know...ugh)

https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-premier-p550

#224 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] cannot boot netinstall iso » 2025-01-03 09:34:02

re: corsiar voyager GTX 128GB

this doesn't reference your specific model/version but i wonder if corsair support is still so lacking?

https://forum.corsair.com/forums/topic/29621-voyager-bootable-linux/

sidenote: in the early days of thumbdrives we came across some that had "special" drivers and software on them as well as an autorun function(windows executable) that would automatically install "drivers" and offer to install and set-up some sort of encryption capability that may or may-not have been just for these brand/make/model/version of thumbdrives(too long ago to remember exactly). also, back in those days there were questions regarding alignment/block-size/erasing/formatting/secure-deletion/trimming/etc...sigh...

i would like to know exactly what corsair has to say for themselves and a product that doesn't perform the same as _virtually_any_and_every_other_external_storage_media_ so please keep us informed(even if you just return it for a refund/exchange/etc).

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